From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposal: ls-lisp.el handle --group-directories-first flag Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:27:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83k0lgymsd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8335se5v40.fsf@gnu.org> <83y2a64bla.fsf@gnu.org> <83czrh40hf.fsf@gnu.org> <83o8asynga.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6910"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: arthur.miller@live.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 24 13:28:16 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m7FpI-0001bU-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2021 13:28:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58920 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7FpH-0005YL-2K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2021 07:28:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7Fol-0004tf-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2021 07:27:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38216) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7Fok-0005Fw-GK; Sat, 24 Jul 2021 07:27:42 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1589 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m7Fok-0004XV-4J; Sat, 24 Jul 2021 07:27:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83o8asynga.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:13:09 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:271536 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:13:09 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > A think to note is that -U will be ignored if --group-directories-first > > is passed (so does gls). > > Hmm... bother: the need to add -U could be a problem, because users > don't necessarily want the list to come out unsorted. > > If adding -U is to fix the order of the directories, then how about > using nreverse on the list of directories instead? Btw, in my testing, with ls-lisp-dirs-first bound non-nil, the directories are shown in their correct alphabetically sorted order. So I'm unsure what problems you saw and in which scenario. Can you tell more about this issue?